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Windows Phone 7 And Internet Explorer 9: Here’s What Happened
12:13PM John Herrman | The most interesting parts of Microsoft’s Mix conference have come to a close, leaving us with two steaming news lumps: One for Windows Phone 7, and one for Internet Explorer 9. Here’s what’s in them! More »
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Internet Explorer 9 Won’t Run On Windows XP
6:56AM John Herrman | If this morning’s news of Internet Explorer 9’s support for HTML5 and video acceleration got you excited, and you happen to run Windows XP, prepare to get unexcited: You won’t be able to install it on your OS. Sorry! [IE9]
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2:55AM John Herrman | Ninth time’s the charm, sometimes! At least that’s Microsoft’s hope with IE9, which they’ve just announced at Mix, brings new HTML5 support (including HTML5 video!), hardware-accelerated graphics for text and images, and a totally new Javascript engine. More »
Internet Explorer 9: A Fresh Start, With HTML5
2:55AM John Herrman | Ninth time’s the charm, sometimes! At least that’s Microsoft’s hope with IE9, which they’ve just announced at Mix, brings new HTML5 support (including HTML5 video!), hardware-accelerated graphics for text and images, and a totally new Javascript engine. More »
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Microsoft Dev Team Sends Flowers To IE6’s Funeral
2:20PM Rosa Golijan | The funeral for Internet Explorer 6, one of the older members of the Microsoft family, was a pleasant affair with only a few protesters. Unfortunately, representatives of the family were unable to attend and sent flowers and a note instead: More »
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The Windows XP F1 Bug: Hijacking Computers One Help Menu At A Time
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | So there’s this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP. It’s triggered when you try to access the help menu by hitting the F1 key. Whoops. More »
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Inside The Excruciatingly Slow Death Of Internet Explorer 6
10:41AM Popular Science | It’s the bane of web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20 per cent of web surfers still using it? More »
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9:37AM Matt Buchanan | A disheartening chart from Ars Technica, if you’re a Firefox booster: That gentle downward slope indicates Firefox might never reach 25 per cent marketshare. Why? Because companies with money care about browsers now. Or, in a word: Chrome. More »
Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling
9:37AM Matt Buchanan | A disheartening chart from Ars Technica, if you’re a Firefox booster: That gentle downward slope indicates Firefox might never reach 25 per cent marketshare. Why? Because companies with money care about browsers now. Or, in a word: Chrome. More »
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Internet Exploder 8 Just Conquered The World (That’s A Good Thing)
4:59PM Matt Buchanan | Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser Microsoft’s ever shipped. It actually sorta tries to be compliant with modern web standards, or at least more so than its predecessors, so it’s a huge leap forward, even if it’s nowhere near WebKit-based browsers like Safari or Chrome on that front. So, I’m glad to see it’s now the world’s most-used browser, instead of IE6 or IE7, with 25.6 per cent of the total market, according to Net Applications. [Windows Team Blog]
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Google Slowly Choking The Life Out Of IE6
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | Google’s slowly killing compatibility for IE6 with Google Apps – as of March 1, Docs and Sites aren’t supported with Internet Exploder 6 anymore. It’ll load, but most of the features won’t work. More »
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